Although not mentioned as one of the possible solutions in the above article, using IP aliases seemed to work. The problem is how do I stop a certain JBOSS instance? For example I have three IP aliases:X.X.X.200, X.X.X.201 and X.X.X.202each running a running a different server configuration on the same machine.

All three are running per a "ps -ef | grep jboss". On the JBoss site there is info for shutting down different instances if the different instances are using different ports with the "shutdown" command however I couldnt find anything for my situation. In addition to that, the shutdown commands options seem not to support any references to a particular IP address. Please help. Thanks

If you got a "Failed to authenticate" error, then you connected successfully to the server through the port. It looks like you locked down the jmx invoker, so you will have to also provide the userid and password on the command line:

What version of JBossAS are you using? Also, are you using JBossAS or JBossEAP? EAP is available only from the support site if you purchase a subscription.

Anyway, JBossAS does not have the jmx invoker locked down. If it is locked down, you or someone else must have locked it down. In that case I would not know the exact file (if any) to look at.

If you have JBossEAP, jmx invoker is locked down out-of-the-box, but there are no user ids set up out-of-the-box so there is no way to log in. The default configuration for JBossEAP uses the jmx-console-users.properties files in the server/xxx/conf/props directory to store the user id an password.